Rredhouses Woolen Mill, Islay. Detail of wooden framed two cylinder carding machine.
SC 427410
Description Rredhouses Woolen Mill, Islay. Detail of wooden framed two cylinder carding machine.
Catalogue Number SC 427410
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 13028
Scope and Content Detail of wooden-framed, two-cylinder carding machine at Redhouses Woollen Mill, Bridgend, Islay, Argyll and Bute Redhouses lies 2km north-east of Bridgend, Islay, on the east bank of the River Sorn. There are the remains of a late 18th-/early 19th-century carding-mill, along with a woollen mill built in 1883. The woollen mill consists of an L-shaped, three-storeyed main block, with a single-storeyed wing to the south. The machinery is driven by water power, and some pieces were removed from the earlier mill to carry on the traditional processing methods. This shows the two-cylinder carding machine on the ground floor of the mill. Like the other machines in the mill, it is belt-driven and linked by a system of overhead pulleys to the waterwheel. A carding machine worked the wool into continuous strands. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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